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Research in Comparative Politics focuses on the impact of political institutions and actors on variables such as democratization, quality of democracy and political representation. In addition, we contribute to the development of quantitative, but also qualitative methods in political science. Since 2013 this area of scholarship has been under the direction of Prof. Jessica Fortin-Rittberger.

Staff

The following personnel of the Department of Political Science is doing research and teaches in the field of comparative politics:

Maier, Jürgen/Faas, Thorsten/Rittberger, Berthold/Fortin-Rittberger, Jessica et al. (2017). This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens’ and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries, in: Journal of European Public Policy, 1–24. [Link]

Lefkofridi, Zoe/Michel, Elie (2016). The Electoral Politics of Solidarity, in: The Strains of Commitment: the Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

Huber, Robert/Schimpf, Christian* (2015). Friend or Foe? Testing the Influence of Populism on Democratic Quality in Latin America, in: Political Studies (Early View). [Link]*Robert Huber and Christian Schimpf finished their MA studies in Political Science at the University of Salzburg in 2015.

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Beginning 1 March: Lecture Series on Migration, Labor Market and Social Policy

Starting 1 March, 2018, an interdisciplinary series on the topic of "Migration, Labor Market and Social Policy" takes place at the Department of Labor and Business Law every Thursday between 17:00 and 20:00. The lectures focus on the topic of migration and the question of providing adequate answers regarding social policy challenges for state and society. The series consists of 13 contributions from a historical, political and jurisprudential perspective.

On 1 February, 2018, the third-party-funded research project “TransMiK”, which is based at the Department of Education, started. The acronym stands for "Transit", "Migration" and "Köln", and makes reference to the theme of "Living and working in Köln (Cologne)". On-site guided interviews were conducted with 150 employees of the airport Köln (Cologne) / Bonn from the business division "Ground Services”.

As many as 160 pupils closely followed a lecture on on topic of "Cybermobbing, hate postings & illegal downloads. The criminal law view on cybercrime and other phenomena in the WWW ". The criminal law expert of the University of Salzburg, Prof. Hubert Hinterhofer, provided information on when you make yourself punishable and how to protect yourself.

Dr. Karoline Kollmann will hold a guest lecture on "CDK6 in hematopoietic malignancies" on 19 February, 2018, at 16:00 in HS 403 (grüner HS) at the NAWI. The Department of Life Sciences invites you to attend!

At the end of May 2018, the new EU Data Protection Basic Regulation enters into force and with it the amendments to the Austrian Data Protection Act. The new data protection law aims at better protection of personal data in the digital age. On 1 February, 2018, the Department of Public Law, National and European Law of the University of Salzburg organized a conference at the Edmundsburg Salzburg with lectures from both academics and practitioners in the field.

On Wednesday, 14 March, 2018, the University of Salzburg cordially invites pupils, parents and interested parties to inform themselves about the wide range of courses offered. The program can be found here.

Once again this year, the WissensNetzwerk Recht, Wirtschaft und Arbeitswelt, together with the Vienna Center for Legal Informatics (WZRI) of the University of Vienna, has organized the largest and most important scientific conference in Austria and Central Europe in the field of legal informatics: the International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS. The event will be held from 22 to 24 February, 2018, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Salzburg.